News from May 2017
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: MONTGOMERY, Ala. - On Tuesday May 9, 2017 Dr. Robert M. Ritchea, 54, of LaGrange, Georgia, was sentenced to serve 10 years in prison for operating a “pill mill" through his medical practice and for money laundering, announced DEA Assistant Special Agent-in-Charge Bret Hamilton and Acting United States Attorney A. Clark Morris.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: MS-13 Members and Associate Shot Suspected Gang Rival, Leaving Him Paralyzed.
By US DOT Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), released the following statement after the Senate's procedural vote on H. J. Res. 36, a Congressional Review Act (CRA) joint resolution of disapproval of the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) final rule on methane emissions from oil and gas sources on federal and Indian land.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that an Osage Beach, Mo., woman has pleaded guilty in federal court to a scheme to use stolen mail and stolen identities to cash fraudulent checks at area banks.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - A Chicago-based scrap iron refining business and its president admitted in federal court today that they concealed from the Internal Revenue Service more than $11.6 million in cash wages paid to employees.
By US DOT Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), delivered the following remarks at a committee oversight hearing on “Conservation, Consultation, and Capacity: State Views on the Need to Modernize the Endangered Species Act."
By US DOT Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held the hearing, “Conservation, Consultation, and Capacity: State Views on the Need to Modernize the Endangered Species Act." Below is the opening statement of Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.), as prepared for delivery...
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: Today, SHAWN N. ANDERSON, Acting United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, announced that defendant MIGUEL CAMACHO, age 42, from Tumon, was sentenced in District Court on May 9, 2017, to a 63-month term of imprisonment, to be followed by three years of supervised...
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Dr. Yusuf Siddiqui, 72, of Williamsville, NY, who was convicted of obtaining controlled substances by fraud, was sentenced to one year probation by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that on May 9th, after over four weeks of trial, a federal jury returned guilty verdicts against six individuals charged with committing approximately $13,655,094 in Medicare fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that James Mazzariello, Jr., 62, and his son, Adam Mazzariello, 37, both of Alden, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara to conspiring to pay bribes to City of Buffalo police officers. James Mazzariello, Jr. also pleaded guilty plea to making and subscribing a false tax return. The defendants face a maximum penalty of five years in prison, a fine of $250,000, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: DETROIT - The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and more than 4,200 of its law enforcement and community partners collected more unused prescription drugs than at any of the 12 previous National Prescription Drug Take Back Day events.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Las Vegas man, who conspired to travel to Michigan for sex with two minors and who was in possession of approximately 6,000 images of child pornography and approximately 300 videos of child pornography, was sentenced today to 160 months in prison, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Steven W. Myhre for the District of Nevada.
By Commerce Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: Also out today, the Annual Report to Congress on the Status of U.S. Fisheries shows that the number of domestic fish stocks listed as overfished or subject to overfishing remain near all-time lows, with two new stocks rebuilt in 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JEFFREY HERRING, 27, was convicted today of robbing and murdering Michael Northcote on Oct. 12, 2015, in Swan Lake, New York, as well as racketeering charges in connection with his membership in the Askari, a Bloods gang. The jury convicted HERRING on all five counts in the controlling indictment following a two-week trial before U.S. District Judge Kenneth M. Karas.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: BOISE - Timothy Bojorquez, Jr., 29, of Plainview, Idaho, pleaded guilty today to illegal possession of firearms after being convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence, Acting U.S. Attorney Rafael Gonzalez announced. Bojorquez was indicted in February by a federal grand in Boise.
By Homeland Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 WASHINGTON – Secretary John F. Kelly visited Aqaba, Jordan and Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, from May 5 to May 8 to participate in high-level meetings with foreign partners and to advance cooperation on a range of security issues.
By USDA Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: (Washington, DC, May 9, 2017) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today affirmed the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s renewed dedication to religious liberty and freedom of speech. In a policy statement released to all USDA employees, Secretary Perdue said, “Today, I want to reestablish this ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: Two former executives of a foreign defense contractor pleaded guilty in federal court today for participating in a conspiracy to submit bogus bids, claims and invoices to the U.S. Navy in an effort to steal tens of millions of dollars as part of a years-long corruption and fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: The Justice Department announced that Jeremy Walker, a former corrections officer cadet with the Elmore Correctional Facility in Elmore, Alabama, pleaded guilty in federal court yesterday to a civil rights violation for assaulting a handcuffed man.
